arXiv Machine Learning

Chem World: A Large-Scale Benchmark and Physics-Informed Framework for Trustworthy Chemical Property Prediction

arXiv:2607. 28079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chemical property prediction plays a critical role in accelerating scientific discovery in chemistry, materials science, and drug development.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

ElemeNet: Multiscale Molecular Machine Learning with Uncertainty Quantification Across the Periodic Table

arXiv:2606. 30961v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advances in deep learning architectures and representations have enabled ML-driven chemical property prediction, but state-of-the-art (SOTA) models have remained largely confined to independent codebases and lack support for diverse chemical species.

By Jacob W. Toney, Samir Darouich, Yiran Wang, Aaron G. Garrison, Johannes K\"astner, Heather J. Kulik
arXiv AI
2d ago

Atoms to Processes: The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Chemical Engineering

The article discusses how the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is transforming chemical engineering by influencing problem formulation, analysis, and solution across a wide range of applications, from atomic-scale simulations to industrial operations. It highlights recent methodological advances and representative uses, noting a shift from purely black-box models to hybrid and physics-informed frameworks that incorporate conservation laws, thermodynamic consistency, and structural constraints. These integrated approaches enhance robustness, reliability, and human-AI collaboration, ultimately amplifying rather than replacing core chemical engineering principles.

By Michael Baldea, Linda J. Broadbelt, Marianthi G. Ierapetritou, Akhilesh Jain, Ankur Kumar, Thomas A. Kwan, F\`elix Llovell, Andrew J. Medford, Ilias Mitrai, Joel Paulson, Junyi Qiao, Matthew P. Rivera, Kirti C. Sahu, Lev Sarkisov, Zachary P. Smith, Calvin Tsay, Ching-Mei Wen, Victor M. Zavala, Huacheng Zhang, Dan Zhao
arXiv AI
Sep 17

BOOM: Benchmarking Out-Of-distribution Molecular Property Predictions of Machine Learning Models

BOOM is a new benchmark for evaluating out‑of‑distribution (OOD) molecular property predictions in machine learning. It provides chemically‑informed tests across common property prediction tasks and assesses over 150 model‑task combinations. The study shows that current models, including chemical foundation models, struggle to generalize OOD, with the best model still exhibiting three times higher error than in‑distribution predictions.

By Evan R. Antoniuk, Shehtab Zaman, Tal Ben-Nun, Peggy Li, James Diffenderfer, Busra Sahin, Obadiah Smolenski, Everett Grethel, Tim Hsu, Anna M. Hiszpanski, Kenneth Chiu, Bhavya Kailkhura, Brian Van Essen
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 26

Differential Learning for Robust Prediction of Thermal Stability with Application to Energetic Materials

arXiv:2608.23874v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting thermal stability during handling and storage is essential for the design of safe and reliable energetic materials. However, experimental...

By Megan C. Davis, R. Seaton Ullberg, Jeremy N. Schroeder, Andrew H. Salij, Marc J. Cawkwell, Christopher J. Snyder, Ivana Matanovic, Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

A General-Purpose Framework for Chemical Reaction Representation with Atomic Correspondence and Flexible Condition Adaptation

The paper introduces Align-React, a chemical reaction representation learning framework that incorporates atomic correspondence between reactants and products, an adapter for embedding reaction conditions, and a Reaction-Center-Aware attention mechanism. These components enable the model to capture precise molecular transformations and focus on critical functional groups, leading to improved performance across a variety of organic reaction tasks. The framework outperforms existing architectures on most benchmark datasets.

By Kaipeng Zeng, Xianbin Liu, Yu Zhang, Xiaokang Yang, Yaohui Jin, Yanyan Xu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

MolE-RAG: Molecular Structure-Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Chemistry

arXiv:2606. 05693v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for molecular property prediction, but their ability to reason over chemical structures remains limited, as molecular representations such as SMILES differ substantially from the natural language on which LLMs are primarily trained.

By Joey Chan, Wonbin Kweon, Ashley Shin, Niharika Bhattacharjee, Pengcheng Jiang, Yue Guo, Jiawei Han
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

A Generative Deep Learning Workflow for Inverse Molecular Design of Fuels

arXiv:2504. 12075v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In the present work, a generative deep learning framework combining a Co-optimized Variational Autoencoder (Co-VAE) with quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) techniques is developed to enable inverse molecular design of fuels.

By Kiran K. Yalamanchi, Pinaki Pal, Balaji Mohan, Abdullah S. AlRamadan, Jihad A. Badra, Yuanjiang Pei